Word: round-the-world
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...Compared to the 225,778 tons displacement of the fighting ships that President Roosevelt sent on their famous round-the-world cruise...
...other seven boats were sold, nearly two years ago, to the Dollar Line (TIME, Sept. 24, 1923). These the white-bearded merchant Captain Robert (''Robbie") Dollar and his son, R. Stanley Dollar, put to work in a unique round-the-world one-way service. One sails every fortnight from each of the following ports in circuit: San Francisco, Honolulu, Kobe, Shanghai, Hongkong, Manila, Singapore, Penang, Colombo, Suez, Port Said, Alexandria, Naples, Genoa, Marseille, Boston, New York, Havana, Colon, Balboa, Los Angeles, San Francisco and around again. They carry about 100 passengers who are permitted stopovers. These globe-girdlers...
...round-the-world flight which has just been completed by the army airmen was a great undertaking, but it was not all-important. Even in 1872, before the day of flying machines, the trip around the world was made in seventy-two days, three months shorter time than that of the flyers. The army justifies the night by saying that they collected valuable data on air-currents, many maps, and general information which might be useful in time of war. They do not stress the point that all this knowledge was gained by agents before the flight, and that...
...Aquitania (Cunard)-Lord Beaverbrook, British newspaper owner; Rufus C. Dawes, candidate's brother; three Portuguese round-the-world fliers who met disaster in China...
Cranking up, minus pontoons, at Karachi, India, the U. S. round-the-world trio took the air for Atlantic shores. Constantinople, Bucharest, Vienna, Strasbourg flashed by beneath them. On the seventh day they landed at Paris. Chagrined at being too poor to afford her own circummundane expedition, France none the less accorded the Americans an effusive reception-squadronal escorts of planes from Strasbourg on, cheering crowds on the Champs Elysées, cordial officials at Le Bourget airdrome...